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How can Humanity look the deer in the face? How can I,
When you see water in a stream you say: oh, this is stream water; When you see water in the river you say: oh, this is water
Going out to the garden this morning to plant seeds for my winter greens —the strong, fiery mustard
I will keep Broken things: The big clay Pot
My brothers knew The things you know. I did not scorn learning them; It’s just my mind
My desire is always the same; wherever Life deposits me: I want to stick my toe & soon my whole body
Look into her eyes and know: She does not think
Reminding us, as they witnessed our curiosity about them, that no matter the losses, there’s something fabulous going on at every stage of Life, something to let go of, maybe, but for d...
With your unknown to me Odd magic You came To me:
To change the world enough you must cease to be afraid of the poor. We experience your fear as the lea… humiliations; in the past
If my sorrow were deeper I’d be, along with you, under the ocean’s floor; but today I learn that the oil that pools beneath the ocean floor
Remember When we ended It all —for a weekend— & how
Knowing you might some day come and how unprepared I’ve always been like Mr. Sloppy in Charles Dickens’
When you thought me poor, my poverty was shaming. When blackness was unwelcome we found it best that I stay home.
I said to Poetry:"I’m finished with you." Having to almost die before some wierd light comes creeping through